Life was complicated enough in a group of physicians in the Maternal-Fetal Medicine division of the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque. Then, along came COVID.
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A masterfully told tale of passion, jealousy, heroism and betrayal set in the gruesome trenches of World War I.
It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the...
Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her...
For a runaway slave in the 1840s south, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That’s what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her...
This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open.
He lives in Montedidio — God’s Mountain — a cluster of alleys in the heart of Naples. He brings a...
The unnamed narrator of this slim, alluring novel recalls a summer spent at age sixteen on an idyllic Italian island off the coast of Naples in the 1950s, where he spends his days with Nicola, a local fisherman. The narrator falls in love with Caia,...
John Gardner's most poignant novel of improbable love.
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I noticed it was beginning to get dark. And for a couple seconds, it was scary — like that meant the world was breaking, or expired, or bruised, or something worse. It was really scary for a couple seconds but then I calmed down. Up above, the...
"Blowtorch of a novel. . matchless and prescient." — Publishers Weekly
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"A self-taught writer with an uncanny gift...
From the Prix Médicis winner comes a haunting meditation on the nature of identity.
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